Roata Vremii Village Museum

 On our way out of the restaurant, the waiter noticed us taking pictures.  He offered to show us the Moldovan museum housed in the building.  We had no idea one even existed.  We agreed, of course!  These pictures are of the museum, which represents an upper class house in a village.  Lots of textiles to admire!  The larger pictures won't be as detailed as usual on my stitching pics because they were taken with a point and shoot instead of the usual Nikon.  It was all we had with us.

Third Ornament Start

This is my third ornament start for the Winter in July Challenge.  The pattern is called Dickens' Christmas, and is by Keslyn's.  It's huge for an ornament - approximately 125x125.  I've changed the colors - the floss I'm using is Boggy Marsh by Hand Dyed Fibers.  I didn't get it done by the end of July, though.

Food At Roata Vremii

Roata Vremii serves traditional Moldovan food, in the main.  Like a lot of the restaurants here, you can get a "group" platter, which includes a bunch of grilled meats and veggies.  The three of us who went had that.  The platter is the bottom photo.  I only had some chicken breast, which was excellent.  The cutlet is pork, as are the sausages.  I'm not a pork fan, which causes somewhat of a problem here.  Andreas had his ubiquitous Greek salad, and we all split a cheese placinte (middle photo).  Placinte has a dough similar to phyllo, but not quite as puffy, and is filled with one or more of a mixture of six things: potatoes, cheese, cabbage, apples, sour cherries, or pumpkin.  This one was cheese spiced with dill, and was delicious.

Looking Like A House

This is, finally, really looking like a house.  Yay!  It must mean I'm almost done.  I've gotten several lines past the halfway mark on the pattern, at least.

Dining Textiles

A few days after we got back from Texas, we ate at Roata Vremii (Yes, really, two i's at the end.  One day I will explain Romanian  pronunciation.)  The first thing I noticed when we sat down was the table runner.  I made Andreas immediately take pictures before it was covered in food.  Although the embroidery goes all the way through the selvage, when you look at it carefully, you can see that it's done by hand.  Red and black on white are the traditional colors, and this particular design looks like pattern darning.  I'll chart it out some time this winter, when I have more time.  Anyway, thought you'd like to see some local embroidery!


An actual food review will follow tomorrow, along with pictures of their private tour of their museum a waiter gave us.  Fascinating.

Working The Curls

Lots of little  curly bits on this bottom part; all the middle mandala is stitched, but not beaded.  Maybe I'll finish this in a month or so!

Up The Side

Why is it that so many patterns that come in pieces start from the bottom up?  This drives me nuts.  I prefer to work top down, left to right.  A lot of these are bottom up, right to left.  I guess I could just work the pattern upside down, but that feels wrong to me, too.  Ah well.  On a brighter note, I've made a good start on part eight of Sweet Flowers and hope to have it done in time for the next part out later this month.